Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.

Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

There are some things in the world we can't change.